Kazmierczak Genealogy Reports Dec.7-2017

Rajewski Genealogy Reports Dec.7, 2017

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

May 3rd.

2016 Queen of Polish Constitution Parade was Ada Ezlakowska.

Today is the celebration of Constitution day in Poland. The biggest will be in Warsaw, of course, and a small one in Poznań. Strange that the obsolute biggest one will be in Chicago, one we have attended many times in the past when we lived there. It's an all day event with a huge parade that lasts for hours with food vendors everywhere and several stages set up for music. This year the Chicago celebration of the Polish Constitution of 1791 will be held on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 , at 11.30 AM , on a new route , along State Street , from Lake Street to Van Buren St. This 125th Chicago parade is in honor of the first democratic constitution in Europe and second in the world only to the United States Constitution . Every year the Parade gathers thousands of people devoted to Polonia and Poland. Thousands more are expected to be drawn to the television coverage of the parade provided by Polish TV stations. Polish values, history, traditions and culture will be presented by the participants of this biggest outside Poland Parade.

We managed to go to the rynek after a horrible night of headaches and watched the Polish calvary ride through, To our great surprise, this time they had women riding with them on their own horses. Does this mean they actually let women into the calvary? What progress!! We sat for an hour before I felt the beginning of another headache and quickly returned home to take more medicine, an icebag and lay down. Thursday can't get here quick enough for me to see the neurologist again.